{"id":16215,"date":"2026-06-27T00:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T20:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=16215"},"modified":"2026-06-27T00:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T20:03:13","slug":"former-afghan-army-officer-shot-dead-in-daikundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/former-afghan-army-officer-shot-dead-in-daikundi\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Afghan Army Officer Shot Dead in Daikundi."},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16228\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/adaikinediia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/adaikinediia.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/adaikinediia-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/adaikinediia-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/adaikinediia-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/adaikinediia-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Former Afghan Army Officer Shot Dead in Daikundi.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Local sources in Daikundi Province say Yaser Behzad Hosseini, a former Afghan Army officer, was killed in a gun attack on the evening of Friday, June 19, 2026 in Shahristan District.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>According to the sources, motorcycle-riding gunmen opened fire near the district headquarters before fleeing the scene.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>No group has claimed responsibility, and the Taliban have not commented on the incident.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The killing is the second reported death of a former Afghan security officer within a week, further raising concerns over the safety of former government personnel despite the Taliban&#8217;s declared general amnesty.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Afghan Army Officer Shot Dead in Daikundi. Local sources in Daikundi Province say Yaser Behzad Hosseini, a former Afghan Army officer, was killed in a gun attack on the evening of Friday, June 19, 2026 in Shahristan District. According to the sources, motorcycle-riding gunmen opened fire near the district headquarters before fleeing the scene. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16234,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16215\/revisions\/16234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}